Example sentences of "out [prep] be [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 For once , the product had turned out to be even better than the advert .
2 Yet other varieties happen to find themselves in possession of new tricks : they turn out to be even better self-replicators than their predecessors and contemporaries .
3 But it turned out to be even better than the ads said .
4 On atomic and subatomic levels seemingly solid matter is seen to be small particles within particles which eventually turn out to be just pure energy .
5 In Leeds a professional burglar turns out to be just 13 , with a record stretching back to when he was seven .
6 On Boxing Day , which was really hot , a party of us drove to Riverton and had a good laugh about Riverton Rocks , which were given maximum rating ( 3 stars ) in the Guidebook but turned out to be just rocky outcrops offshore .
7 Marcus joined the line to collect a towel which turned out to be just big enough to wrap around and tuck in .
8 On closer inspection it turns out to be also contextual , dictated by what is going on in the mind of the sender and the assumptions he or she makes about what is going on in the mind of the receiver .
9 Using the first generation Ortho-Chiron ELISA , which allows detection of antibodies against recombinant non-structural hepatitis C virus peptides , 58% of Italian autoimmune chronic hepatitis cases , defined as reported above — that is , positive for ANA-H and/or SMA-AA — turned out to be also positive for anti hepatitis C virus .
10 When I accosted the scoundrel , he turned out to be completely different Colin Chapman , up to his neck in sound bites .
11 But Morris turned out to be completely uninterested in all three .
12 They turned out to be practically unbreakable as well as hard-wearing .
13 ‘ What seems now a cloud no bigger than a man 's hand could turn out to be yet another inflationary and political storm for a government that could do without either . ’
14 It is certainly possible that the distinctions between different types of variable drawn by Dressler and Wodak and by Kerswill will turn out to be methodologically important in as much as they yield new insights into the principles underlying patterns of variation and processes of change .
15 ‘ It turned out to be pretty energy-sapping record to make , actually , but the last two albums have done pretty well so we had the luxury of doing some hit-or-miss experimentation in the studio .
16 Our supposed sample of university students might , just by chance , turn out to be nearly all from the faculty of law , which may be only a very small faculty .
17 Somehow him telling that lie that turned out to be nearly true made him feel that it was his fault .
18 that my work has turned out to be medically relevant , but it might not have done , and that would n't have meant that it was useless or wasted .
19 I think network marketing I think it I think that turns out to be jolly hard work because if you 're not recruiting it 's the recruitment part of it .
20 But the ballet itself was shaping well ‘ and turns out to be altogether better technically than Soldier 's Tale ’ .
21 It should be said that the forecast figures have probably turned out to be slightly high , particularly for 1991 , since it seems unlikely that the US Department of Commerce would have foreseen the downturn in the global economy which is now biting so hard in all industries .
22 Both turned out to be slightly more than required .
23 He seemed genuinely grateful for his aunt 's hospitality , and set himself out to be exceptionally charming to Doctor Bailey .
24 The whole room has the feel of a place set out to be conventionally acceptable and — if such a word is appropriate in this Castle — almost friendly .
25 This is especially true when the information given by the patient turns out to be astonishingly accurate , as on numerous occasions .
26 Likewise , a command enjoining some action which was logically impossible , or which had already been carried out , or a lie that through ignorance on the part of the perpetrator turned out to be objectively true , can both be considered defective through the lack of a canonical trait .
27 Hahnemann 's conception of disease being due to a combination of intrinsic ( inherited ) and extrinsic ( environmental ) factors has turned out to be largely correct .
28 ‘ And Gabby turned out to be particularly good , which saved him from having to do the usual terrible , crap jobs that the Hawaiians had to do , and he ended up playing for a living in just about every joint in Hawaii — and there were lots of them in those days , because live music was a big thing .
29 Some of the quotes turn out to be particularly apt — ‘ I 'm fixing a hole where the rain gets in' , for example , ‘ Help ! ’ or ‘ Listen , do you want to know a secret ? ’ .
30 Inputs of cereals and bottling and packaging turn out to be particularly important in employment terms .
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